Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's RomancesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 21.10.2021 - 160 Seiten In this compact, yet comprehensive exploration of Shakespeare's romances, Robert W. Uphaus suggests that the romances bring us to a realm of human and dramatic experience that is "beyond tragedy." The inexorable movement of tragedy toward death and a final close is absorbed in romance by a further movement in which death can lead to renewed life, characters can experience a second time of joy and peace, and the audience's conventional expectations about reality and literature are challenged and enlarged. In the late tragedies of King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra, Uphaus finds the tragic structure augmented by elements that will later contribute to the form of the romances. Turning then to the romances themselves, he sees these plays as forming a profession in which Pericles is a brilliant outline of the conventions of romance and Cymbeline is romance taken to its dramatic limits, in fact to the point of parody. Through his fresh and provocative readings of the plays we experience anew the delight of Shakespearean romance and glimpse the world of renewal at its heart. |
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... associated with the abstract virtues of patience, charity, chastity, faith, and truth. This is not to deny the identity of the characters as people, however; many of the romances, as C. L. Barber has noted, involve “the transition of ...
... associated with tragedy, is transformed by a deliberate enactment of ostensible miracle. In his attempt to dramatize a version of romance, Edgar tells Gloucester, “Thy life's a miracle” (55) and “therefore, thou happy father, / Think ...
... associated with tragedy and romance. In almost call-and-response fashion Acts I and II eddy back and forth between Alexandrian and Roman views of time, just as the scenes move back and forth between Rome and Alexandria. Antony states ...
... associated with “studied” thoughts—with the controlled exercise of reason which is their primary duty—and the Alexandrians, from the Roman perspective, are forever enmeshed in “present pleasures”—impulsive experiences rather than ...
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